October Happenings

Another month has flown by and this month is now halfway over.

Jerrica put this cute drawing on our fridge.  I love the perspective and how she nailed the back of the shoes.

I did the traditional Halloween buckets on the kids beds.

Our Fall lasted a while this year and we tried to enjoy every minute of those beautiful leaves.

I decorated a fun black and white mantel for Halloween this year.  Thanks for the mini white pumpkins.

Kaylee made me a cute leather bracelet when she went to Mountain lab.  She also left cute notes and treats on everyone’s pillow the afternoon she got back.

She was on the purple team for Mountain LAb and got this cool T.

We fed cute baby goats …

Aunt Alesha sent Ashley an AWESOME Wonder Woman costume for Halloween.  The return address may say from Super Hero Headquarters, but we knew it was from her.  I loved her PS on her note, “PS please tell The Incredible Hulk to quit ripping his clothes”

Lot’s of hikes in the beautiful weather that we were having.

The girls carved their pumpkins.

It makes me smile how Pintrest is always referred to when we are doing projects.

The girls also had a bunch of church friends over for a carmel apple bar with tons of toppings and then the movie “Hocus Pocus”.

Those were some of our highlights of October!

Fall Break

We had Fall break a couple weeks back.  It was tricky fighting for family time with all the friend time, but we managed somehow to make it all work.

We hiked Castle Canyon and the colors were gorgeous!!!

The girls did Fall masterpieces with chalk in our driveway….

The big girls had made freezer meals in young women’s at church.  They asked if they could make some for our family.  OF COURSE!!!  I smiled at how Jerrica labeled the lasagna pan… “lusonyu”

We went ice skating and then for a treat.  Jerrica was looking a bit stripey.

Kaylee had cute friends with her that are both so tall they had to squat down for a picture with her.  That poor girl of mine needs to grow!

We all went and saw this movie…

We LOVED it!  I feel like Alexander on so many days!

Rebecca had a fun shopping afternoon with a friend.  She came home with all of these great deals.  Haunted Mines was frequented by my kids and their friends.  I hate how expensive it is! 

Some of the kids had fun sleepovers and parties.  I made the three older kids each text me a picture one night of who they were with and what they were doing.  I had to somewhat blackmail them to make them do it.  SO fun though to have those pictures!

We did a beautiful 500 piece Fall puzzle.  Jerrica was my biggest helper.  I loved the expression on her face of satisfaction each time a piece was put in.

I mentioned how I made the older ones text me pictures.  I also snuck pictures when I would go and pick up kids.  Here is Nathan and his friend at City Rock.  They had a blast, but wore themselves out for soccer practice later that day.

One of my favorite days was a picnic lunch at the park.  I told the kids that I was getting Chik fil A and if they wanted any, they would have to come on a picnic with me.  The food made all SIX pile in the car.  We were lazy on that big quilt as we soaked in the beautiful weather.  It was one of those moments that I had all six kids around me laughing.  I don’t want them to grow up!

Such a fun Fall Break!!!